REPORT & GALLERY: 2019 Atura NSW Championship Series Rd 5
The Atura Blacktown NSW Championship Series returned from its Winter hiatus at Sydney Dragway with another day of fast paced bracket racing.
The Atura Blacktown NSW Championship Series returned from its Winter hiatus at Sydney Dragway with another day of fast paced bracket racing.

The battle for the 13B record, which has developed into one of Australian drag racing’s hottest rivalries right now, has seen another turn as Pac Performance took back the title from Steven Barnett on Sunday at the Brisbane Jamboree.

Steven Barnett’s Jamboree campaign did not start off the way he would have liked after putting his Mazda 6 into the wall on the first day of testing, but his fortunes have turned around big time.
Joe Gauci has made his first test hits, dialing in his spectacular new purpose built radial Mustang ahead of Radial Riot.

With the Brisbane Jamboree coming up this weekend, racers have been getting an early look at the track through testing. Here’s some of the action so far!

The Nissan R35 GTR has a reputation for being one of the fiercest production cars available, and the four wheel drive, six cylinder-powered beasts have been a common sight at drag racing events around the country – with the Australian record for the brand recently being reset.

Crashes are part and parcel of all motorsports, including drag racing, but this wall-slap from Danny Makdessi’s gorgeous four-door Valiant was one of the stranger ones we have seen recently.
The 2019 Nitto Performance Engineering GT-R Festival hosted by Motive DVD saw over 300 GT-Rs converge on Sydney Dragway, as the event continues to grow as one of the largest gatherings in the world.

The 2019 Junior Dragster Nationals once again brought together drag racing’s youngest drivers from across the continent to take part in two days of fun and social competition at Mildura’s Sunset Strip.

Rod Harvey’s 2JZ-powered Toyota Camry has moved ever closer to the world record after a 5.708 blast in testing ahead of the Jamboree.
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